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French hotel company Accor launched new hybrid and senior bond issues on Thursday after announcing the deals at the end of last week. The new deals finance tender offers for some of the company’s existing hybrid and senior notes.

High grade corporates are champing at the bit to access the dollar market as credit spreads continue to rally and investors continue to put money to work.

IBM returned to the euro corporate bond market for the first time since 2017 on Thursday, to sell its largest ever deal in the euro market and to push into a maturity not seen from a corporate issuer so far in 2019.

World Bank on Thursday added to a record breaking start to the year for public sector sterling issuance with yet another large trade. A German agency is set to bring another deal this Friday in a market that shows no signs of slowing down.

The Republic of Turkey has returned for a bond in euros after the $2bn note it sold earlier this month rocketed in value.

Ping An Real Estate seeks $300m — ICTSI tests appetite for €260m — Huifeng Petrochemical debuts with $200m

The public sector dollar market on Wednesday showed that it had more than enough depth to cope with a pair of issuers bringing deals in the same maturity with just a basis point of difference in initial price thoughts, as both trades came in size and at tightened pricing. Another agency is set to dip into the demand on Thursday.

South Korea’s Suhyup Bank returned to the international bond market on Tuesday after a near five year hiatus to raise $300m.

Investors swarmed to Johnson Electric Holdings’ maiden dollar bond transaction, allowing the borrower to raise $300m from a nearly six times oversubscribed deal at its peak.

Three sterling deals hit the SSA market on Tuesday, bringing this year’s total volume to more than double last year’s and indicating that issuers and investors are yet to be put off by the confusion surrounding Brexit.

Two SSA borrowers will go head to head in the dollar market on Wednesday, bringing five year benchmarks with only 1bp difference in initial price thoughts.

Belgium’s Solvay has signed a €2bn sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, as the chemicals company progresses with one of the most ambitious decarbonisation undertakings in its industry.